/swg/ - Screenwriting General

Just write a novel.

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>screenplay done
>casting done
>readthroughs done
>rehearsals soon
>shooting by end of year
>directing a scene myself

>>76347765
A novel written by me has an even less chance of being successful.

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>>76347765
How many people still read books for pleasure anymore? Book readers seem to be increasingly becoming a niche underground society now. It doesn't help that millennials seem to be reading less books than any other generation before it.

>>76347807
Congrats, anon. I hope to see it soon. :)

>>76348458
Thanks m8. It's just a small thing, my first movie actually, and I'm really excited to see it all come together

tfw skipped a script read and got high with the main actress

>>76347765
People still read books?

>>76349709
I do. A lot of women do. Books are still popular with women.

How do I know if something I write is good tho?

>>76349768
Get people to read it. Yes, actual people.

>>76349785

What if I'm shit? How would I get good?

>>76349785
what if I have no friends :(

>>76350210
Post a watermarked PDF to /tv/?

>>76347765
It seems way harder to market a book than it is to market a movie.

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Would /tv/ cosy up to the script I'm about to get my hands into?

>movie about the Algerian war following a young idealist conscript
>plays on the "Vietnam"-esque vibes of the conflict
>recounts the protagonist descent into extremism after feeling betrayed by de Gaulle's call for peace
>joins the OAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_de_l%27arm%C3%A9e_secr%C3%A8te) at the end
>kino score guaranteed: "ce n'est pas moi" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvxXO9Y-08)

Now, this will be sound like gibberish to the wider portion of /his/ that is foreign to French 1950-2000 history, and so I see that regardless that I might sneakily explain the context by means of sneaky dialog, I'm afraid that an american audience will still be lost while watching the movie.

So I was wondering whether I should rather write this in French (thereby shrinking down my chances that this might ever be picked by a studio) but where at least the audience will know of the context, or if I should write it in English no matter that it'll get Americans to say "le what now?" when watching it.

/rant

Now help me /tv/.

>pic related is bants from the Algerian war to let you guys see it has potential

Just wrote 4 pages of dialogue. Damn its a piece of shit but time really flies when you write.

Its super hard to get people to read your shit screenplay tho. I got one half way done in google docs, but dont know should i share it.